Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) was a pioneering American modernist painter and co-founder of Synchromism, in 1912.
Synchromist paintings were some of the first abstract paintings created in America. The theory of synchromism is based on the idea that color and sound are similar phenomena and that the colors in a painting can be orchestrated in the same harmonious way that a composer arranges notes in a symphony. MacDonald-Wright once said, "Synchromy is to color what symphony is to sound. ...It means everything is done with color."
Stanton MacDonald-Wright was born in Virginia, and moved to Santa Monica with his family at the age of ten. He began studying art at the Art Students League in Los Angeles while in his teens, and in 1907 moved to Paris, studying at major institutions including the Sorbonne, Académie Julian, and Académie Colarossi.
Back in the United States in, he and fellow artist Morgan Russell developed Synchromism. MacDonalnd-Wright and Russell held exhibitions in Paris and Munich in 1913, and MacDonald-Wright lived in New York City from 1914 to 1919 before returning to California.
MacDonald-Wright was instrumental in introducing modern art to Los Angeles, organizing the first exhibition of modernists there in 1920. He served as director of the Art Students League of Los Angeles in 1923 and taught art history and aesthetics at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1942 to 1954. During the 1930s he was a regional director for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) federal art project, creating notable murals in Santa Monica.
MacDonald-Wright spent the rest of his life in California. His paintings are held in the permanent collection of many prestigious museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery.
$1,450
Stanton Macdonald-Wright "Departing Spring" Woodblock Print c.1966
By Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Located in San Francisco, CA
Stanton Macdonald-Wright Woodblock on Laid Paper 1966-67 Departing Spring Hesitates Appears to be an artist proof. The pencil text and signature a...
Woodcut
Synchromy
By Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Located in Miami, FL
The work is executed at the heyday of abstract expressionsim in the mid-50s. Colors are saturated and bright. Goldfield (of Goldfield Gallery). Written on the stretcher. Goldfield G...
Oil
Modernist figurative drawing by Stanton MacDonald-Wright
By Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Located in Colfax, CA
An early modernist drawing by synchromist artist Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) was a pioneering American modernist painter and co-founder of Synchrom...
Pencil
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Still Life
By Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Stanton Macdonald Wright (1890-1973) was one of the most prolific and important modernist artists and co-creator of the Synchronist movement. ...
Paper, Pencil
$250
H 10 in W 8 in
Chapel and houses along a lake, New England Landscape - American School, 19th C
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on buff wove watercolor paper, 10 x 8 inches (255 x 203 mm). In good condition with overall minor toning. Some watercolor paint splatters on the verso, contem...
Watercolor, Pencil
Tabletop Still Life Mid-century Abstract Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Hammack (1924-1990) Cubist Tabletop Still Life, 1957 Oil on paper measuring 16 x 20 inches. Framed measurement, 23 x 27 inches. Signed and dated lower right.
Paper, Oil
$2,189
H 22.45 in W 22.45 in D 0.79 in
Quiet structure, Abstract Library, oil paint, Expressionism, Contemporary art
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Point d’Équilibre Oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 in) Framed dimensions available upon request Floater frame in natural wood (also available in black and oak) Signed on the fro...
Oil
$2,248
H 22.45 in W 22.45 in D 0.79 in
Point d'equilibre, Abstract Library, oil paint, Expressionism, Contemporary art
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Point d’Équilibre Oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 in) Framed dimensions available upon request Floater frame in natural wood (also available in black) Signed on the front Born...
Oil
$3,431
H 26.38 in W 26.38 in D 1.38 in
Pause artistique : Abstract Studio, Still life, Contemporary Cubism, French
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Framed size: 67 x 67 cm (26.37 x 26.37 in) Unframed size: 60 x 60 cm (23.62 x 23.62 in) Choose the frame: wood or black Signed: Sophie Dumont in front and on the back of the canvas O...
Oil
$4,497
H 22.45 in W 61.82 in D 1.38 in
Large Contemporary Bookshelf Painting – Oil on Canvas in Blue, Ochre and Ivory
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
This large horizontal abstract painting by French artist Sophie Dumont is an oil on canvas measuring 150 x 50 cm (59 x 19.7 in). It is presented in a floater frame, available in eit...
Oil
$1,250
H 12 in W 13.75 in
"Factory Along the River" Howard Daum, Modernist Factory Landscape, Industry
Located in New York, NY
Howard Daum Factory Along the River, 1937 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor and pencil on paper 12 x 13 3/4 inches Provenance The artist Ashby Gallery, New York Carl Ashby, Ne...
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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H 26.38 in W 26.38 in D 1.38 in
Silence des livres - Modern Abstract painting, Geometric, Original Oil on Canvas
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
French contemporary painter Sophie Dumont is known for her abstracted library compositions and layered oil technique. Working from her studio in Normandy, she builds each canvas thr...
Oil
$800
H 39 in W 21.25 in D 0.5 in
Broadway Costume Illustration by Designer Mabel E. Johnston
Located in New York, NY
Mabel E. Johnston Untitled, c. 1920s Watercolor and pencil on paper Sight: 18 x 12 1/2 in. Framed: 39 x 21 1/4 x 1/2 in. Signed lower right: Mabel E. Johnston The first tidbit I fou...
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
$875
H 24 in W 20 in D 2 in
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and en...
Oil, Board
$6,500
H 20 in W 23 in
"Female Nude" Louise Nevelson, Modernist, Elegant Flowing Forms, Sweeping Line
By Louise Nevelson
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson Female Nude, circa 1935 Pencil on paper 9 15/16 x 13 7/16 inches Provenance The artist Estate of the artist Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California Priva...
Paper, Pencil
Impression B
By Toshi Yoshida 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impression B Color woodcut, 1959 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Titled lower left (see photo) A trial proof, prior to the edition of 100, signed and numbered Condition: Excellent Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist by decent to his heirs "Printmaker and painter Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, into the respected Yoshida family of artists of Tokyo, Japan. Father Hiroshi was a celebrated landscape painter and printmaker, and mother Fujio established herself as the first female Yoshida artist as well as an Abstract artist later in her career. Younger brother Hodaka was an Abstract printmaker whose style, completely separate from his family's historic traditional bent, later influenced Toshi. Hodaka's wife Chizuko would become a pioneering female Japanese artist whose own exploration of Surrealism and Abstraction challenged the status quo. Toshi, however, as the eldest sibling, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, and from an early age he was trained by Hiroshi in his studio. Unable to attend formal schooling due to the polio-induced paralyzation of his leg, Toshi would instead help with his family's printmaking studio and go on sketching trips with Hiroshi. As he got older, these trips would include India and Southeast Asia, working from morning to night taking night trains to get from one destination to another. Among Toshi's favorite subjects were the animals he discovered along the way. However, these trips ended as Japan entered military dictatorship in the mid 1930s, and artists whose work showed signs of Western influence were barred from exhibiting. At this time, Toshi left Japan for China and Korea, where he would remain for the duration of the war. He stuck to patriotic themes to remain in business, and after the end of World War II, as Japan struggled to recover from wartime economic depression, he earned his living creating traditional Japanese woodcut landscapes...
Woodcut